I was with you on this for years. I've finally given in and set up a few like that; HDMI pass-through made it easier.

Then my girlfriend started watching Nightline. I'm in an apartment, upstairs, and at freakin' eleven o'clock at night, Nightline feels it MUST have background music with LOTS of BASS DRUM that's almost embarrassingly loud. I feel I have to mute it until the guy starts to talk.

Suddenly, I see that just having the sound come out of the TV speakers would be just fine. The last guy for whom I set this up has his system in the room below the master bedroom. I get it.

I just did this today for a client as well.... Turned it on in the menu, and that's it. Worked as expected. Thank you Yamaha.

The Avantage series has me back on the Yamaha bandwagon.  The rest is still crap though!